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We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.

Mind Your Own Business.

An equation commonly contains one or more so-called unknowns, often represented by x, y, z, etc.

The Salander investigation is fake. Bjorck's original doesn't match Blomkvist's version. Classify Top Secret.

Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.

He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.

Mikael had rarely managed to surprise Berger. This time she was silent for nearly ten seconds.

The constitution had nothing to do with it. It was, after all, a matter of national security.

That I would have to be totally insane to stop seeing you just because you're going to leave one day

She still weighed only forty kilos and stood one metre twenty-four centimetres tall.

-Who knows about this?
-Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.

I can be a regular bitch. Just try me.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

Salander fitted into this picture about as well as a buffalo in a boat show.

Bastards too have a right to their private lives.

If love is liking someone too much, then I think I'm in love with an awful lot of people

You know what? I think you ought to recruit her for the Section.

It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding

Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.

She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.

She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Harald seemed to be an invisible but ever-present spirit who affected life in the village by his absence.

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

I was a scared little girl barely into my teens then. Now I'm a grown woman. I can kill you whenever I want. Again

When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm going to clobber him with a baseball bat

One of them is that a bastard is always a bastard and if I can hurt a bastard by digging up shit about him, then he deserves it.

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.

It was this simple. Some had it. Others would always falter when it came to the crunch.

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

No, she did not want to go to hospital. Yes, she would like a cup of tea. Only then did she begin to think rationally again.

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

He was a cocky devil. Lisbeth liked cocky devils, just as she detested pompous jerks. There was only a subtle difference.

Cuando llega la hora, llega la hora. A woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do and all that crap.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?

You have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.

It would be deplorable if the special interests had the power to silence those voices in the media that they find uncomfortable.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

She went out on the balcony and leaned

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

To rest. Not to wakeup. Forgive me, Mimmi.

He knows that I have a photographic memory ... and that I'm a hacker.

Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (R.F.S.).

Too many cooks might wreck the whole dish.

Zalachenko ... you're just an ordinary asshole who hates women.

Men could be as big as a house and made of granite, but they all had balls in the same place.

Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.

She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.

I'm not arguing. I just think that it's pathetic that creeps always have to have someone else to blame.

That held for a few minutes, until the head of Budget pointed out that SA was not much better than SS.

This is how it goes. We are born. We live. We grow old. We die. He had played his part. All that remained was the disintegration.

Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.

Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.

She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace.

If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.

Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein

[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.

She had taken many more punches to both body and soul than anyone should ever have to endure. But she had been able to rebel every time.

Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.

You're an entropic chaos factor

Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.

She was like a nagging itch, repellent and at the same time tempting.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

Hey, toy boy. It's only 3:00, and I want to be properly entertained before dinner.

Blomkvist had kept the promise he'd made in December to stop visiting Lundagatan in the vain hope that Salander might appear.

Oppurtunity Makes the Thief

You mean that your buddy was lying?

The opportunity makes the thief.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

agent inside S.I.S. who had picked up Zalachenko's trail. Right now we're examining a large number of old personnel files." "But if the K.G.B. had

O.K., a band. You already have loads of tattoos. Are you sure you want another one?

I don't think I'm the type who falls in love. She was a friend. And we had good sex.

He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close.
She would probably bite him if he tried.

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Stark raving mad.

Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity.

I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.

She cursed her gender. Nobody would have dared attack her if she had been a man.

I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

come much colder

When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.

Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.

When he ran into her at Susanne's, she was friendly but cool and distant. When they met in her bedroom, she was wildly passionate.

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.

Women disappear all the time. Nobody misses them. Immigrants. Whores from Russia. Thousands of people pass through Sweden every year.

She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.

But intelligence officers never really retire, they just slip into the shadows.